Nicolas, I'm forwarding your request to Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list. Do please subscribe and/or read the archives in hopes of getting replies.
http://www.arabeyes.org/mailinglists.php Regards, - Nadim --- Nicolas Pettiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found your coordinates through the web site www.arabeyes.org. > > I am a Belgian Frenchspeaking (and also English speaking) teacher of Physics > who has been for long involved with free software and free access to culture. > With the help of an American colleague (Ben Crowell) I am translating his > free physics books to French. > > As I also have many native Arab speaking students, to whom I teach in French, > I would love that the textbook I use as reference be also available in Arab. > I told them this and some consider to help with the translation from English > to Arab, that is a challenge as most of them do not have a good command of > English (worse than their command of French since they come from Morocco, > Algeria where many people still speak French) nor of the physics that is > the subject of the books. > > I am writing to you in order to know if you could help us with this matter, > and for example with the following points: > > 1/ help setup a proper infrastructure using an adequate wiki to help with > the translation from English of from French to Arab, or help with the > use of the gettext tools suite (kbabel, gtranslator or the same on > windows as well as the rosetta tools that has been set-up by the > ubuntulinux people on plone) > > 2/ help to find some native Arab speaking people who would agree to help > with the translation or at least the proof reading. > > Much thanks in advance, > > Nicolas > > -- > Nicolas Pettiaux > Association �lectronique libre pour la promotion des droits de l'Homme dans > la Soci���t��� de l'information (AEL) - http://www.ael.be __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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